This Day In Wrestling History- January 25th

2009 – Mickey Rourke was interviewed about the support of the professional wrestling industry when it comes to “The Wrestler”. Rourke said the wrestling industry has been very supportive, specifically naming Ric Flair & Roddy Piper. Rourke then said “It looks like I’m going to Houston for Wrestlemania. Y2J better look out, I’m going to kick his a-s-s”. Rourke had come to terms to make an appearance but let the cat out of the bat. Critical reaction to Rourke led to the angle being scrapped and some felt also cost him his Academy Award for the role that year. Rourke did appear at Wrestlemania 25 in a reduced role, punching out Jericho

2011 – Ric Flair missed a TNA house show event in Berlin, Germany after sources within the company claimed that, “Flair was refusing to get on the plane to Germany.”

Events

In 1978, Championship Wrestling from Florida hosted the “Superbowl of Wrestling” at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, with 12,000 fans attending. It was headlined by a world title unification match between WWWF Champion Superstar Billy Graham & NWA Champion Harley Race:

In 1997, the first WCW Souled Out, held at the Five Seasons Center, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was branded as an nWo event. All matches were nWo vs WCW with nWo referee Nick Patrick officiating every match:

2010 – One of the nicest people ever associated with pro wrestling, longtime Wrestling Chatterbox editor Georgiann Makropoulos passed away at the age of 67.

Georgie, as she was known to her friends, was one of the kindest people to ever become involved in any aspect of professional wrestling. She was a long-time friend and fan of many of those who came through the WWWF as she grew up in New York, including Bruno Sammartino, Buddy Rogers and Bill Watts, among others who she maintained fan clubs as a young fan and later befriended. She actually maintained the same ringside seats at Madison Square Garden in NYC for decades, until the building ended their long-standing subscription service for fans.